12/4/2023 0 Comments Gretsch gold sparkle drums![]() ![]() 302 double-flanged hoops on snares/toms.6-ply North American maple/poplar shells with Silver Sealer interiors.They expanded upon traditional drum designs to shape a sound that retains fundamental Gretsch characteristics while projecting a fresh voice. The Gretsch drum design team molded the Brooklyn series by combining classic Gretsch elements while infusing it with new attributes. Proudly hand crafted in Ridgeland, South Carolina, USA, by a team of veteran drum builders, Gretsch Brooklyn has a sound that is at once recognizable and essential, yet distinctively reinvented. Gretsch Brooklyn series celebrates the rejuvenated Brooklyn city passion and spirit and expands on its distinctive shared American experience. Today, Brooklyn represents a renaissance community that vibrates with contemporary artistic expression, youthful innovation and passionate musical commitment. It is a shared legacy that cannot be duplicated. Brooklyn and Gretsch share an inseparable history that is part of American music history and folklore. They were proudly crafted in the vibrant city for the better part of the 20th Century. It was a cool idea in spirit.Gretsch drums were born in Brooklyn, New York in 1883. Of course I know now that DUCO shells were a bit oversized compared to shells that were wrapped but it was a hard lesson many years ago. They were so tight and I could barely tune the set. crap! The heads wouldn't fit! This was before any of the Aquarian Vintage heads and I was barely able to squeeze heads on. The person who wrapped it for me told me how incredibly tough it had been to wrap the set but he did them and they looked great! I put all the hardware back on and went to put the heads on and. ![]() I had someone else do the wrap job and I went with green glass glitter as I thought the green and the zephyr lugs would look cool. I was in my mid 20's when I got this and I thought it would look super cool to get this set wrapped in a glass glitter so the set could look period correct. I once had a 40's WFL set that was 26,13,16,6.5x14 that was most likely a duco and had been stripped down to bare wood. I think I have gotten used the regular sparkles on Ludwig drums but the glass sparkles sure look cool on WFL drums. I know this is an old thread but I definitely like the (glass glitter) sparkles the best on an old Gretsch. Now whether it was someone like Precision wanting to offer the raw wrap or maybe DW wanting to put it on their drums I do not know but I do recall in the early to mid 90's the glass wraps were re-introduced with a bit of fanfare and that was when I first saw the term "Glass Glitter" being used to describe these re-issued "sparkle wraps". At some point someone must have recognized that there was a market for these finishes and got Delmar to make it again. If they wanted to rewrap to match a Rogers or Gretsch they were probably out of luck as far as a direct match was concerned since the glass style of wrap wasn't available any more. As vintage drums became a "thing" there were now people doing restorations and rewraps. Move ahead a couple of decades and the only sparkles that were readily available were the metal foil type. I don't recall any drum companies pointing it out and that may have been on purpose since it kept their wrap options open something changed (say switching to a different vendor who carried the other style). ![]() As I said earlier both types were called sparkles or sparkling pearl or sparkle nitron or whatever but there wasn't really any reference to what was inside actually doing the sparkling and I don't think anyone really noticed all that much that there were two types in use. Whether the drum makers made their choice based on appearance, price, availability, or some other factor is hard to say. I don't have any first hand knowledge but it would seem that the drum manufacturers had their choice from various wrap companies, some of whom were using hex sparkles and some were using crushed glass. ![]()
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